Yeah, lengthy proof...
LOL
The "physics" that has been presented here on the iHub board was woefully incomplete. The math required to adequately describe the process is simply too complex. It's a dynamic process involving changes in humidity, pressure, density, volume, and weight. Many arguments were made where a single aspect of the process was claimed to be the achilles heel that makes the process impossible. Victories were claimed but they never could actually stand up to much scrutiny. Most didn't even make logical sense.
My favorite was the argument that cold humid air would rise. Absolutely hilarious... People build HOT air balloons for a reason. They happen to work. I've never heard about anyone trying to use a HUMID air balloon. Gotta be a reason for that...
Solar Wind Energy didn't originate the downdraft tower idea. They are simply building upon work that was done years ago.
SWET's biggest innovation IMO is their patented dual turbine system. A single turbine can only extract a percentage of the energy from the air passing through it. By placing a second turbine in the exhaust tube more energy is extracted from the same flowing air. It seems pretty obvious but SWET was the first to patent the idea.
SWET's design also uses a unique hydraulic accumulation system that connects all of the various turbines to the generators. Again, SWET was the first to patent this system.
SWET isn't the only proponent of downdraft towers. Other groups have taken steps to advance the technology.
Australia did a feasibility study exploring possible locations including water sources and possible designs & probable outputs. As I recall they concluded that the process would produce electricity but wasn't economically viable in the locations they had considered. The SWET board here at iHub eventually concluded that their data appeared to be unreliable. It wasn't internally consistent.
There is another downdraft tower design that is patented by one of the American universities. The patent was used to attempt to argue that Solar Wind didn't have the patent and therefore fraudulent. Only thing is that both the University & Solar
Wind appear to have valid patents. I guess each is different from the other in enough of a way to be distinctive in the eyes of the patent office.
At the time of the discussion of the competing patents nobody stopped to consider that the patent filed by the University validated the concept of a downdraft tower. One would think that the University would have taken the time to do a more complete mathematicall model of the process as it designed its tower. After all, their reputation would be at stake.
In conclusion, I still think that the downdraft concept can work. However, I'm in agreement with the various critics of the company that SWET is most likely a share selling scheme.
That being said, I do have a number of shares. I bought back in when the price was at .001. After all the time and effort I've put into this stock I just couldn't stay on the sidelines. If I loose my money I'm okay with that. I'd rather that than being left behind in the off chance that Ron actually does manage to get it together.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Upton Sinclair
